The Kitty Masquerade
(will be producing in large format soon)
created on my iPad with the Art Set app
The Kitty Masquerade by Josyan McGregor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at josyanmcgregor.com.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://josyanmcgregor.com/about/.
Happy to have been asked to produce this brochure for the Montreal branch of the LLSC in December 2011.
You can see the great work this organization is doing for patients with blood cancers across Canada by visiting the Leucemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada website here.
I wrote this blog post for my work (FundScrip) and I am particularly proud of it. It’s called the New Rules of Fundraising for 2012.
Here’s an email design I created back in October 2011 for Daisy Whitney for the launch of the new cover for The Mockingbirds (paperback) and a sneak peak at the cover of the sequel entitled The Rivals (currently available as a pre-order).
Awesome! I designed a logo for Daisy Whitney back in 2010 and very very pleased that she has used it on her website!
Technology and the world lost an inspirational man on October 5, 2011. I hope that his style of “crazy” lives on forever.
R.I.P. Steve Paul Jobs 1955 – 2011
A sentiment from Seth Godin that I will adhere to and remember every day from now on…
Easy and certain
The lottery is great, because it’s easy. Not certain, but easy. If you win, the belief goes, you’re done.
Medical school is great because it’s certain. Not easy, but certain. If you graduate, the belief goes, you’re done.
Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain.
Most paths are neither.
Love this so much that I need to place it here so that I never lose it or forget it:
Art is what we call the thing an artist does.
It’s not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human.
Art is not in the eye of the beholder. It’s in the soul of the artist.
On September 11, 2001, I was at work at the Chambre de commerce du Mtl métro as usual. It started off as any other Monday morning at work, but by 9:15 a.m. the world had changed and time had stopped.
As we all witnessed the horrific images and endless news coverage, we all knew this would alter our perception of the world and would expose us to the real fragility of humans.
They evacuated Place Ville Marie by 11 a.m., so I picked up Evan early from daycare that day.
As we were walking home, I tried to explain what had happened using only general terms like “the bad guys” and the thing I’ll never forget is that Evan all of 5 years old at the time, said this to me exactly: “but Mommy where were the good guys”.
I often wonder still where (and who) the “good guys” are. (updated)
